New Maxima and Derasa clams from Flying Fish Express.....and a whole bunch of things

[Elmo18]

Okay, so I got my shipment from Flying Fish express. This is my fourth time ordering from them (twice for LR and now twice for livestock) and EVERYTHING IS ALIVE!! As soon as I put in the clams, the started to open up and extend their mantles, but right now I still have my lights off for the pair of true perculas that I acquired.

My concern is that I also got 3 cleaner shrimp and now two of them is kind of "dancing" around the Maxima clam. The maxima already attached to a small rock when I opened the baggy up, so i put a flat rock down on my sand bed, and just plopped that guy on top of it. Do cleaner shrimp eat clams???? They are also on the shell of the Derasa clam. Hmm... some info please, I thought blennies eat them, but not shrimp.

Regards,
Ilham

[djheywood]

Cleaner shrimp may eat them. I had a cleaner that killed two maxima clams by constantly picking at the end of the mantle. I pulled my shrimp out of the tank. I would take them out personally.

Sorry for the bad news.

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[PerryinCA]

I've got 3 common skunk cleaners in one tank, and a fire shrimp and a skunk in the other (too lazy to look up binomial names right now). In niether tank have they touched my clams. I would watch them. If it looks like they are damaging the clams, take them out. Although, personally I would rather have the shrimp in my tanks than the clams....they are more entertaining to watch.

-Perry

[Elmo18]

Hmmm.. at the moment two of them are on my Samoan Blue Derasa, but none is touching the Fiji Maxima. These clams are beautiful!! I don't wanna sound like a marketing sales dude for Flying Fish Express, but they have some nice clams at nice prices. Fiji (1st) grade Purple Maxima $29 and Samoan blue derasa $23. My pair of true perculas are also doing well.

I will watch those shrimp closely. Seems like one tries to go inside, in between the mantle but then the derasa kind of closes, then opens again. Right now, I just turned on the 2X250 Watt MH. Thanks for the replies.

Regards,
Ilham

[Colin]

Watch them closely, they may just be picking gunk off of the shell. My deresa's shell gets a regular cleaning from my blue leg hermits.

--Colin

[Chicago]

relax i to think your ok..just monitor the situation to make sure they are not constantly on the clam preventing it from opening..

[Neal359]

i was told by my lfs that people who have their clames eatin by a shrimp usualy have a clame that is going down hill befour the shrimp atak the clam and it the clemer shrimp are just clening up the dead or dieing shrimp. so if your clames look gaad and helth them i wouldnt wory about it

[djheywood]

I disagree with you neal. My clam was perfectly healthy until the shrimp took a liking to it. I will agree though that they are more likely to pick when something is dead or dying, but I think they annoyed the clam constantly which caused it to slowly recede and die.

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[heartbreak7]

I have 3 clams and 3 cleaner shrimp in my 90, never had any problems among them.